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Polytrichum perpusillum Mull. Hal.

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, case postale 60, 1292 Chambésy-GE, Switzerland.

Description

Polytrichum perpusillum Müll. Hal. in Hedwigia 36: 90. 1897.

= Pogonatum pensilvanicum (Hedw.) P. Beauv., fide O’SHEA & PRICE (2008: 36).

Type citation. “Paraguay, Caraguaza, ad ripas rivulorum humidas et umbrosas, Febr. 1884, Balansa 3618 ”.

Type specimens. Isotypes: Caaguazu, sur les berges humides et ombragées des ruisseaux, février 1882, Balansa 3618 (G [1885], G00048075; Herb. Boiss., G00048068; Herb. DC. [1884], G00048074).

Type designation. HYVÖNEN (1989: 18): isotype (H-BR), holotype location not indicated.

Comments. Number 3618, Pogonatum pallens Besch. in Rev. Bryol. 2: 18. 1885. nom. nud. was later used as a type by MÜLLER (1897: 90) for Polytrichum perpusillum Müll. Hal. See discussion in O’SHEA & PRICE (2008: 36).

Notes

Published as part of Price, Michelle J., 2012, Catalogue of the Benjamin Balansa moss collections from Paraguay in Herbarium Genavense (G), pp. 153-179 in Candollea 67 (1) on page 165, DOI: 10.15553/c2012v671a17, http://zenodo.org/record/5719346

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
G
Material sample ID
G00048075, G00048068, G00048074
Scientific name authorship
Mull. Hal.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Order
Polytrichales
Family
Polytrichaceae
Genus
Polytrichum
Species
perpusillum
Taxon rank
species
Type status
isotype

References

  • MULLER, C. (1897). Prodromus Bryologiae Argentinicae atque regionum vicinarum. III. Hedwigia 36: 84 - 144.
  • O'SHEA, B. J. & M. J. PRICE (2008). An updated checklist of the mosses of Paraguay. Trop. Bryol. 29: 6 - 40.
  • HYVONEN, J. (1989). A synopsis of genus Pogonatum (Polytrichaceae, Musci). Acta Bot. Fenn. 138: 1 - 87.